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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:24:33 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: auth sys and 16 group limit for NFS
Message-ID:  <BD8B42D2-902C-4268-9E9F-6FE29721E6D2@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <560E635A.8070505@qeng-ho.org>
References:  <AC96254B-1594-4915-9062-7ABF5E856339@gmail.com> <560E635A.8070505@qeng-ho.org>

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Hi and thanks for getting back to me.

A work around in Linux NFS server would be this;

rpc.mountd --manage-gids

Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD?

- aurf

"Janitorial Services"

On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:

> On 02/10/2015 00:51, aurfalien wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> First, excuse me if this is not posted on the right list.
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>> I=92ve been hitting this limit for a few years now, working around it
>> by simply managing LDAP group membership.  But was curious if the
>> only way to fix is moving to kerberos for auth?
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>> Some sites say its no longer an issue in FreeBSD 9/later and newer
>> Linux kernels of the same vintage.
>>=20
>> But I am still hitting it.
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>> Curious of the community has some words of wisdom etc=85
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> The limit is part of the RFC specification of NFS for versions < 4. I =
think the usual advice is "use NFSv4" if you need more than 16 groups. I =
have no personal experience with NFSv4 though.
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>>=20
>> Thanks in advance,
>> - aurf
>>=20
>> "Janitorial Services"
>=20
> :-)
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> --=20
> Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to
> GOTO 1




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